Centralized control of voting is a form of tyranny, pure and simple. Joseph Stalin is said to have explained why: "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." Congress is about to pass an election "reform" bill, HR811 (the Holt Bill). The bill will enshrine secret computerized vote counting, controlled by the White House. The Holt bill would tempt the likes of the late Mayor Daley of Chicago and vote villain Boss Tweed of New York City's Tammany Hall. How will our modern vote villains resist? -They won't. For newer readers, here's an earlier TPV comment: The People's Voice: Disregarding Democracy: The candidates who "win" do so because Big Money and the government behind the Government already have created the election results that they want and they will tailor the exit polls correspondingly as well. The campaign is in itself a major propaganda effort aimed at persuading the voters that their votes count. It is not important at all what they vote for. The important thing for the government behind the Government is that the voters be present at Election Day. The voters have nothing to do with the particular result. They just have to be present at Election Day and go through the motions of "voting" in order for the charade to go on. The "election results" HAVE BEEN PREPARED IN ADVANCE, WILL BE ELECTRONICALLY PUMPED INTO THE VOTING SYSTEMS AND WILL BE PRONOUNCED AS "THE VOTE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE". People will believe this. -But the true vote of the people WILL NEVER BE KNOWN.